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Can I store sequences in sequences with expl3

The documentation for l3seq states LaTeX3 implements a “sequence” data type, which contain an ordered list of entries which may contain any balanced text . but for many programming tasks it ...
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Using \fontdimen as an array to store data

Reading through pi.tex, I discovered the trick of using \fontdimen as an array of dimensions (which is equivalent to storing integers between ±(2^31-1)sp). Namely, \font\x=cmr10 at 1sp % or whatever ...
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Designing packet structure of a protocol

I'm writing a small manual for our self-developed protocol. To show the packet structure we like to include a table like it's shown on this Wikipedia page: ...
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Typesetting classical data structures in tikz

During this discussion an example image generated with TikZ was given by Christian R. but no code was provided: It would be great to have the code snippet that implements it, because I think it has ...
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Using LaTeX to create a resume in PDF [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: LaTeX template for resume/curriculum vitae What are the benefits of writing resumes in TeX/LaTeX? I am a LaTeX noob and I am considering it for revamping my resume. I ...
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Comprehensive list of possible fields in APA6

I'm coming into a situation where users have uploaded thousands of documents (all non-published). There are only basic elments stored currently, including Title, Author, Year. Some fields contain ...
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How to produce structure as in attached image

I remember seeing similar question (image wise) here on this forum but did not bookmark it :( If anyone knows and can point me to the example or give me some ideas to get started would be great ...
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Drawing a collaboration graph or tree with TikZ

I'm trying to draw a collaboration graph for C data structures. originally I got dot files from Doxygen which I tried to convert using dot2tex with varying degrees of success, though none produced ...
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Emulate a “tuple” data structure (when you are free to choose the syntax)

How can a "tuple" data structure be implemented in LaTeX? The idea is to store several elements (possibly a predefined number) in one macro and then be able to extract each of these elements by index ...
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Emulate a “tuple” data structure when the syntax for creating a tuple is predefined and cannot be altered

Imagine I have a macro \createcontact that accepts three parameters. Now, instead of using these during the expansion, I would like to save them separately for later use and retrieval. The above macro ...
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Global key-value dictionary

Is there any package that implements a data structure that provides a key-value mapping (akin to Python's dict)? The keys will be user input and may contain spaces and non-ASCII characters. I would ...
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Display FASTA File in LaTeX

Is there a proper way to show a FASTA file in LaTeX? So far I tried $'s or listings and TeXshade but this does not seems to work.